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From TV news to Google StreetView, face obscuration has been used for privacy protection. Due to recent advances in the field of deep learning, obscuration methods such as Gaussian blurring and pixelation are not guaranteed to conceal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Hanxiang Hao , David Güera , Amy R. Reibman , Edward J. Delp

Images posted online present a privacy concern in that they may be used as reference examples for a facial recognition system. Such abuse of images is in violation of privacy rights but is difficult to counter. It is well established that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Andrew Merrigan , Alan F. Smeaton

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. However, alongside all its advancements, problems have also emerged, such as privacy violations, security issues and model fairness. Differential privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Wei Wang , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

We investigate privacy-preserving, video-based action recognition in deep learning, a problem with growing importance in smart camera applications. A novel adversarial training framework is formulated to learn an anonymization transform for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhenyu Wu , Haotao Wang , Zhaowen Wang , Hailin Jin , Zhangyang Wang

With the development of deep learning technology, the facial manipulation system has become powerful and easy to use. Such systems can modify the attributes of the given facial images, such as hair color, gender, and age. Malicious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yao Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaodan Li , Rong Zhang , Xiang Tian , Bolun Zheng , Yaowu Chen

AI-based sensing at wireless edge devices has the potential to significantly enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly for vision and perception tasks such as in autonomous driving and environmental monitoring. AI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mohamed Seif , Malcolm Egan , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Privacy-preserving computer vision is an important emerging problem in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Prevalent methods tackling this problem use differential privacy (DP) or obfuscation techniques to protect the privacy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 David Schneider , Sina Sajadmanesh , Vikash Sehwag , Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Lingjuan Lyu , Vivek Sharma

Text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, generate highly realistic images from text descriptions. However, the generation of certain content at such high quality raises concerns. A prominent issue is the accurate depiction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Liang Shi , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan

This paper aims to improve privacy-preserving visual recognition, an increasingly demanded feature in smart camera applications, by formulating a unique adversarial training framework. The proposed framework explicitly learns a degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Zhenyu Wu , Zhangyang Wang , Zhaowen Wang , Hailin Jin

State-of-the-art machine learning algorithms can be fooled by carefully crafted adversarial examples. As such, adversarial examples present a concrete problem in AI safety. In this work we turn the tables and ask the following question: can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Witold Oleszkiewicz , Peter Kairouz , Karol Piczak , Ram Rajagopal , Tomasz Trzcinski

Face recognition is an effective technology for identifying a target person by facial images. However, sensitive facial images raises privacy concerns. Although privacy-preserving face recognition is one of potential solutions, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Guotao Xu , Bowen Zhao , Yang Xiao , Yantao Zhong , Liang Zhai , Qingqi Pei

To sanitize specific concepts from imagery and text, privacy mechanisms with formal guarantees are often eschewed in practice in favor of more intuitive techniques. AI-based sanitization is poised to grow in popularity because it can work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 George Bissias , Eugene Bagdasarian , Brian Neil Levine

Massive captured face images are stored in the database for the identification of individuals. However, these images can be observed unintentionally by data managers, which is not at the will of individuals and may cause privacy violations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Tao Wang , Yushu Zhang , Zixuan Yang , Xiangli Xiao , Hua Zhang , Zhongyun Hua

Image registration is a key task in medical imaging applications, allowing to represent medical images in a common spatial reference frame. Current approaches to image registration are generally based on the assumption that the content of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Riccardo Taiello , Melek Önen , Francesco Capano , Olivier Humbert , Marco Lorenzi

The adoption of AI-powered computer vision in industry is often constrained by the need to balance operational utility with worker privacy. Building on our previously proposed privacy-preserving framework, this paper presents its first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Sander De Coninck , Emilio Gamba , Bart Van Doninck , Abdellatif Bey-Temsamani , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

Unprecedented data collection and sharing have exacerbated privacy concerns and led to increasing interest in privacy-preserving tools that remove sensitive attributes from images while maintaining useful information for other tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Kang Liu , Benjamin Tan , Siddharth Garg

Face anonymization with generative models have become increasingly prevalent since they sanitize private information by generating virtual face images, ensuring both privacy and image utility. Such virtual face images are usually not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhuowen Yuan , Zhengxin You , Sheng Li , Xinpeng Zhang , Zhenxin Qian , Alex Kot

The unprecedented capture and application of face images raise increasing concerns on anonymization to fight against privacy disclosure. Most existing methods may suffer from the problem of excessive change of the identity-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhenzhong Kuang , Xiaochen Yang , Yingjie Shen , Chao Hu , Jun Yu

The popularity of various social platforms has prompted more people to share their routine photos online. However, undesirable privacy leakages occur due to such online photo sharing behaviors. Advanced deep neural network (DNN) based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Mingfu Xue , Shichang Sun , Zhiyu Wu , Can He , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

Recent developments in hardware, computer graphics, and AI may soon enable AR/VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) to become everyday devices like smartphones and tablets. Eye trackers within HMDs provide a special opportunity for such setups as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Mengdi Wang , Efe Bozkir , Enkelejda Kasneci